Hat-cleaning machine



UNITED snares NICHOLAS BENENATI, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HAT-CLEANING- MACHINE.

Application filed February 3, 1920.

T0 all 7.0720722 it may concern:

Be it known that I, NICHOLAS BnXnNAJ-rr, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, New York county, and New York State, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Cleaning Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hat machines and more especially to cleaners using a boiler in which steam is generated to be released in the bottom of tanks for the crown of the hat and the brim of the same, and the fuel of the boiler may also be used to heat a pr ssing table.

The object of the invention being to insert the inverted hat in one of the tanks and turn on the steam until the hat is appropriately treated for cleaning, then the brim is subjected to the steam and the table may be used to block the hat or press the brim.

These and other objects and details of the invention are more fully described in the following specification set forth in the claims and illustrated in th accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved machine,

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same,

Fig. 3 is a plan view.

The device is intended to combine all of the means for hat cleaning in one ma hine and to conserve the heat by congregating the various details necessary to perform the work on the top of a boiler 5, which is upright and mounted on the legs 6, and within the base of the boiler is placed a burner that is supplied w'th fuel through the gas pipe 7, having a nipple 8, at its end for a rubber tube connection with th source of supply. irwater gage 9, is located at the front of the boiler and a steam dome 10, on the top of the same, with a safety valve 11, and at the back of the top of the boiler is a steam gage 12.

At the front and rear of the steam dome are pipes 13 and 14, communicating with the interior of the boiler and the former supporting an open cylindrical tank 15 and the pipe terminates in two outlets 16 and has a control valve 17. The pipe 1 1, also has a control valve 18, and supports an oblong tank 19, open at its upper end and has a Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 2, 1921.

Serial No. 355,997.

bifurcated outlet for the steam from the pipe.

When a hat is to be cleaned or steamed, it is placed crown downward in the tank 15, and the steam turned on. The brim of the hat will confine the steam and the upper part of the hat may thus be thoroughly steamed. After this treatment the brim of the hat may be placed on the top of tank 19, and held there at various sides until properly steamed.

The hat may then be placed on a block of the proper size for further treatment on the pressing table 20, at the other side of the apparatus. This table 20, is heated by gas from the pipe 21, that is a branch of the ipe 7, and is supported at the top of the tank, so that all of the operating adjuncts are assembled at a convenient point and the table is lar e enough to carry the pressing irons which may be heated thereon.

The burner for the table may consist of a plurality of circular pipes 22 with jets or perforations and the dome 10, may be tapped at the boss 23, for a pipe to provide steam heating means for the table 20, in case that heating is dispensed with and a coal fire used for the boiler. Each tank has a drain cook 24, to release the water of condensation.

The parts are thus successively located for the consecutive operations of steaming, cleaning and blocking of hats and it is obvious that these parts may be otherwise arranged without departing from the essential features above described or from the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim as new is 2- 1. In a hat cleaning apparatus, the combination of a boiler, a steam dome on the top of same, lateral steam pipes from the dome, a cylindrical tank supported by one of the pipes, a substantially oval tank carried by the other pipe, steam outlets at the ends of the pipes and in the tanks, a pressing table above the boiler and at the side opposite the tanks, and gas burners for the boiler and the pressing table.

2. In a hat cleaning apparatus, the combination of a boiler having a steam dome on its top, lateral pipes from the dome and directed to one side of the boiler, a cylindrical tank supported by one of the pipes, a

horizontally elongated tank supported by a name to this specification in the presence of pipe, inverted outlets for the pipes and Withtwo subscrlblng Witnesses, this 29th day of in the tanks, a pressing table above the boiler January, 1920.

and at the side opposite the tanks, and heat NICHOLAS BENENATI. 5 ing means for the boiler and the pressing WVitnesses:

table. JOSEPH G. B00010,

In testimony whereof, I have signed my CHARLES C.-BRUCKNER; 

